I too graduated from Norton Anti-virus to Norton Internet Security for my Windows 2000 Professional operating system, only to find that the system slowed down to such an extent it was almost unusable. So I complained to Norton, got my money refunded, and chose another solution. Regards Geoff Riggs South Wales ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Osborn" <aosborn@ntlworld.com> To: <SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [SoG] Affiliate shopping site and Norton Internet Security > I'm sure we have experts who can advise Arthur and I am not going to be much > help, But I had problems with Norton Internet Security 2003, first it didn't > seem too happy with service pack 2. I upgraded to NIS 2005. > > I still found NIS blocked things I wanted, was not easy to configure for a > home network. Worse than that it caused my system to slow down, everything > took longer. > > My solution was to uninstall it even though I had time to run on the updates > etc. > > I uninstalled Norton entirely, I switched on the XP firewall and downloaded > Avast anti virus which is free. (In reality I downloaded the A/Virus, > disconnected my broadband, uninstalled Norton, switched on the XP Firewall, > installed the A/Virus, then reconnected broadband) > > This works for me - I have regained my speed and now have no firewall > problems. > > For what its worth > > regards Alan mem 20896 > > > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 0534-3, 25/08/2005 > Tested on: 25/08/2005 18:10:28 > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com >